So I got a friend who calls me and tells me a D-2 from somewhere either in or around the commonwealth has gone and offered every first-string football player in the 2021 class excepting his son. I found this illogical so I checked.
Okay, this school has handed out quite a few offers. They hadn’t offered every first-teamer aside from my friend’s son.
So I told him, “Look, maybe they didn’t offer your son because they don’t believe he’s a D-2 talent. Ever think of that?”
I don’t know whether I made him feel any better. I tried. Is that worth anything? Probably not to him.
The fact of the matter is…recruiting season is crazy, as crazy as the above collage to the right of the above paragraphs. It is crazy when the country is not slap in the middle of a pandemic. Right now, schools which have never offered rising seniors, or even underclassmen, are taking their swings. The offers are flowing like wine.
Maybe these schools are panicked. Maybe they feel desperate. Maybe they are sure about what they intend to target and aren’t concerned with showing their collective hands.
If they do feel anxious and panicked, their feelings mirror my own. Who knows what, exactly, the future holds? Who knows whether there will be a 2020 high school football season?
I have even heard it posited the season could be put off until the Spring. Man that would kill the Spring sports.
Point is…these are uncertain times. These are times which call for calm, not panic. These times call for level and even-headed thinking; not impulsive, irrational, and off the cuff action.
Yes, all of the above is easier when you have some distance between yourself and the kid whose playing career is hanging in the balance. I love all the kids we cover. I want them all to go to the schools of their dreams.
However, if that doesn’t work out, I am not living with them. Point is…staying calm and staying the course is way harder when your are talking about your kid.
All of that being said, lets recollect our collective senses. Number one, as to whether there will be a football season in the Fall of 2020, let me suggest if the Country isn’t back open for business by this Fall, not having football will probably be the least of our concerns.
I believe things are getting better here in Kentucky. I believe if we continue to socially distance about another month or so we are going to be fine.
As for the recruiting, have you done everything you can? Has your son camped and combined right up until the virus-induced, dead-period.
Is your son’s recruiting profile up-to-date and fully operational? Is your son out doing what he can to prepare for the eventuality there will be a season?
If your answer to the above is “yes,” I would subtly suggest you have taken care of all parts of the equation over which you have any control. If your son is a college football player, a college football coach will find him.
Don’t “keep up with the Jones.” What I mean is, be happy for other kids getting offered. You son’s day is coming if you have taken care of what you can.
This race is won by everyone who reaches the destination. It really doesn’t matter who got to the college roster first.
At the end of the day, if your son gets his education payed for, either with academic or athletic money (who cares). If your son gets to continue to play a game you love to watch and he loves to play, then you both are the winner-winner-chicken dinners, sir!
It doesn’t matter if he signs during the early period, on National Signing Day in February, or right before the Summer practice to prepare or immediately before the opening of the college season.
If he can play the college game, he will have ample opportunity to prove himself. He just has to secure a spot on the team’s roster.
When he’s a senior, invited to the combine, won some college championships at whatever level seeks him out, and/or makes his conference or All-American team, who’s going to remember he was the guy they didn’t sign until they struck out on the ones they wanted first? Who’s going to even care?
This is Coach HB Lyon, reporting for KPGFootball, and we’re JUST CALLING IT LIKE WE SEE IT!
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